this is "nightline." >> tonight, shout your abortion. a loud crowd and controversial movement echoing across social media. we're with the woman who started it all. why tens of thousands who shared her choice are joining the cause. while others are fighting back. we're going deep inside myanmar with rare access to a hidden crisis. these people facing unimaginable horrors at home. risking slavery if they try to escape. tonight, our bob woodruff takes us on a journey to see what life is really like as one of the unwanted. and -- slam dunk. what's your favorite guilty pleasure? even health-conscious americans can't seem to resist oreos. from the classic to the kooky. why cookie sales are through the roof.

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good evening. i'm rebecca jarvis. we begin with a controversial movement gaining ground on social media, giving a new voice

to the abortion debate. the fate of it all, a young woman who made waves by announcing she had no regrets about her choice and found others were eager to follow suit. here's abc's aditi roy. >> i had an abortion last year. it was an incredibly positive experience for me because i didn't want to become a mother. >> reporter: so confident in her choice, last month 30-year-old amelia bono decided to share her experience on facebook. >> i really did it on a whim. like i was running out the door, i was like, i need to mop my kitchen, and i just was like, no. i'm not going to mop the kitchen, i'm going to tell everyone i had an abortion. plenty of people still believe that on some level if you are a good woman, abortion is a choice which should be accompanied by some level of sadness, shame or regret. but you know what? i have a good heart and having an abortion made me happy in a totally unqualified way. >> reporter: her revelation resonated. a friend of bono's tweeted a picture of the post to her 60,000 followers and gave it

#shoutyourabortion. >> within a couple of hours there were women in and out of my social circle that were just saying, hey, i had an abortion too. >> reporter: the hash tag has been shared more than 230,000 times. >> i saw amelia's post. i was immediately inspired. and just so ready to join the movement. my hands were shaking. and i was already tearing up thinking about the idea of joining amelia and joining the thousands of women who continue to post. >> reporter: shout >> reporter: shouts have come from women young and old, married and single, mothers and even grandmothers. >> is the takeaway that people who have had abortions have nothing to apologize for? >> i think that it'ss upo every woman to define her own experience with abortion and that's really what this is about. i'm defining my own experience as something that i'm not sorry about. >> reporter: bono says she's not

surprised by outpouring because 1 in 3 women in the country have had an abortion by the age of 45, according to one study. but bono's one-paragraph proclamation brought her to the front lines of the decades-old abortion rights debate. increasingly a war of words waged on the internet. her personal story garnering public attacks. >> i don't want to qualify them as threats. i would qualify them as messages meant to make me feel unsafe. and i just won't let them win. >> reporter: especially during this election season. she says she was motivated in part by the republican threat to defund planned parenthood. following the release of these undercover videos by the center for medical progress, purportedly showing planned parenthood officials discussing selling fetal tissue. >> i could talk about the video but i think i'd vomit. >> reporter: planned parenthood adamantly denies the claims. >> the outrageous accusations

leveled against planned parenthood based on heavily edited videos are offensive and categorically untrue. >> reporter: the fiery showdown between republicans and democrats this election season rages on. >> make no mistake. despite what we hear from the other side, republicans are doubling down on their war against women. >> reporter: amelia is not willing to wait for the politicians to sort it out. >> i don't know if politics can really address stigma. i think that's what things like shout your abortion can do. i think that's what we've seen it do little by little in the last two weeks. i'm looking forward to seeing where the world takes it. >> i think the shout your abortion campaign is phenomenal, i love it. >> reporter: one of the campaign's most visible supporters is "the good wife" actress martha plimpton. >> they've taken it personally. look at you! hi, boo-boo! >> reporter: >> reporter: a life long outspoken abortion rights activist. >> abortion is not some crazy, weird last resort.

it is a normal part of women's medical lives. >> reporter: she's the cofounder of the nonprofit reproductive rights group "a is for" and has believed in the cause since she was a teen aimer. >> for me in particular, because i did have two abortions as a young woman, i feel that my ability to access that kind of medical care made it possible for me to live out my dreams and do what i really wanted to do with my life. >> reporter: plimpton recently joined forces with the shout your abortion campaign releasing this tongue in cheek video. >> pig. that's it. >> reporter: celebrities and activists reading tweets that they receive from detractors after sharing their abortion stories. >> you're a bunch of cells, we should terminate you next, right? oh my god, it's a death threat! >> these are not the brightest bulbs we're dealing with here. but that's not to say they don't represent a pretty formidable force that's so far succeeding

in limiting our access to exercise our constitutional right. >> reporter: abortion has been legal since roe v. wade. in the last few years more than 200 limitations on abortion access have been passed into law across dozens of states. a sign that the anti-abortion movement is going strong. >> hey, hey, ho, ho, roe v. wade has got to go! >> reporter: fueled by a new generation of young women like kristin hawkins. >> today i speak to you pregnant with my fourth child, my first daughter. we are the pro-life generation! >> reporter: a grassroots organizer who's recruited thousands to her cause. >> we're not out there to reduce abortion, we're out there to end abortion. we want this to be over. >> reporter: hawkins says she's not worried about this new hash tag movement. >> i think shout your abortion is a flash in a pan. i think it's one of the many things we're going to see rising up the next few years as abortion activists become

increasingly concerned with a pro-life america. do i think it's going to have a lasting impact? no. >> reporter: but plimpton is confident it has digital legs. >> the shout your abortion hash tag kind of gave people an opportunity to participate in a way that they don't normally have when there's an organization that's kind of centralized. with twitter it opens the flood gates. >> how's it going? are you still at the office? >> reporter: as for amelia bono, things are just getting started. the grassrooter has put her studies on hold, her focus, turning the internet sensation into lasting cultural change. >> this isn't like roe v. wade that can be overturned. this is just a change in the way that people are talking about a medical procedure. and it's something that clearly i think a lot of people are ready for. >> reporter: for "nightline," i'm aditi roy in seattle. next, we got access to what some call the world's largest outdoor prison hidden away from

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tonight, amnesty international is sounding the alarm about another migrant crisis. over 140,000 people trapped in miserable camps with little hope for a better life on the outside. abc's bob woodruff ventured to the other side of the world for a firsthand look at what it's really like to be a hated minority in your own country. >> reporter: we're on our way into northern myanmar to see what is happening with this repressed minority, refugees in their own country. they were the ones no one wanted. thousands of men, women and children refugees trapped and adrift on cargo boats for several weeks this summer with no food or water, abandoned by the smugglers and traffickers they'd paid to get them out of myanmar. after a huge public outcry, some were rescued. but thousands remain unaccounted for, feared dead or sold into

slavery. what would make these people, members of a minority group, desperate enough to risk death and slavery to escape? >> it's so bad here, the best option is to force death, torture, or other abuses at sea and in thailand just to escape. >> reporter: we go deep into myanmar to a restricted part of the country where journalists are almost never allowed. matt smith, an activist and founder of fortify rights, is taking us in. >> not an easy trip to get. >> reporter: we head north. this is where most of this minority population live, just over 1 million people. >> the authorities have a lot to hide in this part of the country. >> what are they hiding? >> there's been systematic human rights violations committed against the rohingya muslim population. restrictions on food and movement, forced labor. >> reporter: as we switched boat to car, we immediately notice a young man working on the side of

the road flanked by policemen. police tell us they are fix is the road. the government has said forced labor is not permitted and we could not confirm. but when we ask our driver, are they paid? no, he says, no pay. >> no pay? >> there's no pay. no pay, no pay. >> reporter: myanmar stripped this minority of their citizenship in 1982. the latest bout of repression began in 2012 incited by a buddhist monk who has been called the burmese bin laden and actively preaches against the minority. "muslim children will be a threat to the country. they will destroy our religion and snatch away our lands." this video, obtained by fortify rights, shows thousands of the minority fleeing their homes as fires rage behind them. we traveled to see the oppressive camps where over 140,000 were forced to live

after their homes were burned down. this has been called the world's largest outdoor prison. they cannot leave the camps to attend school, work or seek medical care. children born in the camps are not issued birth certificates. they are stateless. to get here, we start with the buddhist driver. as we approach the camps we must switch drivers and vehicles. we enter the camp with a rohingya driver. >> why are we going in the back entrance? >> the authorities are not interested in outside attention. >> reporter: you can see barbed wire, police guarding the few exits. >> it might be okay but keep the cameras down. >> reporter: once inside it doesn't take long to see appalling conditions, made worse by the rainy season. food is very limited here. health care is almost nonexistent. >> how long ago he's been sick? >> two years and nine months. >> reporter: we see children

suffering from malnutrition and other serious illnesses. but they still manage beautiful smiles for the camera. our guide quickly points out that we are being watched. >> so many security. >> police or military? are they looking at us right now? >> they are watching us. >> reporter: at this empty clinic, we find a 25-year-old mother of three named rohanna. she gave birth nine days ago. sadly, her baby died after three days. she is still bleeding and has been waiting for days to see a doctor, all because she is rohingya. >> how much longer does she need to wait before the doctor will come? >> after 45 days. >> 45 days? >> reporter: we went to search for a doctor for her. we were told there may be one at a clinic in the neighboring camp. when we get there -- >> there is no doctor. >> there was no staff at the clinic so now we're going to another clinic. hopefully there will be staff there. >> reporter: we go to a third

clinic. there she's told she must continue to wait. no wonder people are risking everything to leave. some activists have called this a slow genocide. we met arafa, a young mother of five. she and her children were stranded on a cargo boat for 50 days over the summer. >> you knew they were going to try to sell you in some way? "yes," she told me. she knew they may sell her as a slave if she did not pay. >> your children were beaten by these traffickers? "yes," she said. if they cried they were hit. >> if i wanted to be trafficked out of here how much would i pay? >> reporter: he said it would cost $2,000 u.s. dollars. to escape they must travel several miles at night to the last camp at water's edge. from here they go to the beach. the boat waiting.

the problem is that is the police post. they need to be paid $1,000 just to give these people a chance to flee. once they clear the police, they have a long trip ahead. we traveled part of the route. >> a smaller boat that holds about 20 to 40 people will take them out to sea along this route. for about four to five hours out to a much larger boat waiting for them in international waters. those boats are, in many cases, operated by transnational criminal syndicates that are buying and selling thousands of people. >> reporter: yet the risk of being trafficked by smugglers or dying at sea is a risk many here are willing to take to escape the repression. experts say this is about to happen all over again, as soon as the rains end. we gained access to amangala, the last remaining rohingya

neighborhood in the city. we met with a community leader. >> you've been here five generations but you're not a citizen and you're not given any rights? "our government is trying to say we are not from here," he says, "but that is not true." there are less than 70 families left here and they don't know how long they'll be able to survive. we met with a leading buddhist monk to hear what he had to say about the muslim minority. he told us the muslims killed the monks. >> do you believe that the muslims would like to take over the country? >> reporter: "muslim people always try to occupy our land," he says. is on for the rrohingya? he says they don't exist. the distrust goes both ways. it starts young. >> what's your name? >> reporter: we met with rohingya children who shared their fears. >> would you want to have a chance to meet some of the others that are buddhist? >> reporter: they told me they don't want to meet any because they killed their families and

burnt down their houses. >> do you think someday you want to go back to the house you lived in? >> reporter: they said they want to go back, but they're too afraid. so for now they must stay in the camps, enjoying what they can. once the rain stops, thousands of men, women and children will take to the water again, willing to risk it all for a chance at a better life. i'm bob woodruff for "nightline" in myanmar. >> willing to risk it all. soon myanmar will be holding what they're calling their first free elections in decades. yet almost no rohingya will be allowed to vote. for those few who can, they will not find a rohingya candidate to vote for. our thanks to bob for sharing their story. we'll be right back. i'm billy, and i quit smoking with chantix. i don't know that i can put into words how happy i was when i quit. it's like losing some baggage,

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we all have things we like to eat in private. i'm a burrito girl myself. but there's one classic cookie that's never going out of style. of all things, why are oreo sales skyrocketing? in an era of increasingly lower-fat food, there's a sweet holdout we know you late-night dunkers can't resist. whether your guilty pleasure is double stuf, birthday cake, cotton candy -- that cookie has seen a 60% spike in sales over the last decade, according to industry reports. ♪ wonder if i >> reporter: what's oreo's deliciously sweet secret? ♪ looked